@lowqualityfacts
I think motels.

When I was a kid I thought that the sound of cicadas was the sound the power lines made when overheated by the summer sun. I have a friend whose childhood belief was that it was the sound of the sun itself.

Which is all just to say that the cicadas have started singing.

TIL: Manche Fachhochschulen sind Vereine

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@forteller det må bli i dag i så fall

@tinker good to see you again yo!

I added that shit to my latest playlist, thank you, I'm always looking for new music

@alina great britney spears song

Let's close out the week with a #geoweirdness thread.

This time we head back to Europe to consider the geographic oddities of the Czech Republic 🇨🇿

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@david_chisnall Oh yeah obviously those, but for normal people 3-to-2 makes a lot more sense. Maybe eventually ending up at 1 if they get really big.

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

@andrewnez this is a superb summary and overview!

I only wish the part about Terraform had some more words as I've never quite understood how it works as an environment, hence I can't grasp what's being said there.

But having tried to use Git submodules, that part rang a loud bell for me (and why I couldn't use them how I'd hoped).

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@verge Google has ads? 😝

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This season's first batch of saury fetched a record price of ¥700,000 per kilogram for some large fish at Tokyo's Toyosu wholesale market on Friday morning. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/10/japan/saury-record-high-price-toyosu/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #saury #fishing #toyosu